Life has been crazypants lately, but I have had time to read (shocker!) and I’ve found that I have a few addictions. Coffee, chocolate, silly wedding shows, Glee… but book series most of all.

Yup, I am truly a sucker for a series and I am author-loyal to boot. In fact, I have discovered some of my all-time favorite authors because I started a series, and just had to read the next one, and the next one, and so on and so forth and then ended up reading an entire backlist because I loved the author. I’m looking at you, Pamela Clare, Anya Bast, Jill Shalvis, Roxanne St. Claire, Victoria Dahl, Christie Craig, Marie Force, Susan Mallery, Candace Havens, Susan Andersen, Felicity Heaton, Lily Graison… Oh, there are too, too many to rattle off, (now I’m sounding like an Oscar speech!) So, yeah, I think we can safely call it an addiction.

So…. Speaking of my addiction, Marie Force had book release yesterday and it’s wonderful. Of course, you know me, I’m not one for recapping the story, but it’s the story of seemingly one-sided love until something changes everything. I don’t remember if I told y’all about the first of the series, but it’s great too- always fun to watch a confirmed bachelor morph into a devoted man- and there’s more to come with this series. The series is The McCarthy’s of Gansett Island. The first one, MAID FOR LOVE centers around oldest brother Mac McCarthy and the second, FOOL FOR LOVE centers on youngest child and only daughter, Janey. There’s another one releasing in July, and it would be pre-ordered if that option were available.

So…. What else have a read lately? Let’s see… Ah, yes, the always funny Christie Craig. Each of the three books (see, there’s that addiction again) revolve around one of three girlfriends who meet every Friday night to talk about sex and drink. Not a bad club for three hot, divorced women. Of course, since the series starts off with DIVORCED, DESPERATE & DELICIOUS, it’s pretty perfect. The heroes are nothing to sneeze at either, although I’ll let you see for yourself (we can delve into my love of men in uniform another day). The other two are DIVORCED, DESPERATE & DATING, and DIVORCED, DESPERATE & DECEIVED. One thing I have to say, though- these women might call themselves desperate, but none of them would ever be called a shrinking violet.

Surprisingly, that’s all I have for now. I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend (hopefully complete with Monday off!) and I hope to return sooner than later.

So, yeah, I was supposed to write this weekend. And, I have… some. Okay, so not as much as I had planned, and I had to work all day Saturday… And today I read two AMAZING books. Ummm…. I’m a bit of an addict.

First was Dark Enchantment by Anya Bast. I really, really love the worldbuilding Anya does. Her Elemental Witches series (Witch Fire, Witch Blood, Witch Heart, Witch Fury) is a series I go back and read every so often, allowing myself to be immersed in a world full of magick and demons. The Dark Magick world is based in fae magicks and the series (Wicked Enchantment, Cruel Enchantment, Dark Enchantment) is simply awesome. This is the third in the series (pre-ordered) and I ate it up. I mean, just clicked the next page button from beginning to end and didn’t even get back up to get coffee (which I adore and drink by the bucketful, if that tells you anything). The world is so real, and story so moving (yeah, yeah, so I cried a little) and I can’t say enough good things about it. Try it, you’ll like it.

Switching gears, I also read Kristan Higgins My One and Only. Kristan is one of the only authors I love who writes in first person, and there is good reason for that. She writes zany, screwed up heroines who literally speak to you as a reader. This one was no exception to that rule and holy testicle Tuesday, I cried at multiple places here. This is story of love- lost, found, lost, found (no, really)- along with family angst and wackiness thrown in for fun. You know how I hate to give a plot synopsis (that would be why I include the links, people!), but this was fabulous.

So, yeah, I spent almost an entire day with my Kindle. Sue me. It was worth it. Two *very* different books- one paranormal with great, hot, sex, one contemporary without the smexy parts explained in detail- but they were both- as I believe I said before- AMAZING. So, it may have been a day with my Kindle, but it was a perfect day.